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Music Video: "The Lock Him UP! and Throw Away The Key Blues." tRUMP's a Danger to Self and Others. Police Code 5150! --- and a Link to All My Original Music Videos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1v90vwlSo 

Everybody Sing Along!

Selfie - Music Video - Greg Vanderlaan Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1v90vwlSo


And Here's a Link to All My Music Videos... Singing and Playing Guitar... Original Protest Songs. Chords and Lyrics Provided so You Can Learn 'em and Make a Hit Record!

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos


I'm Working on "Put the Baby Put-Put in Prison" all about Vladimir Putin... It Looks Like the Pussy Riot was Right... Vladimir IS a Queer... Not a Homosexual, but he has Queer Thoughts in his Defective Brain... Like: "Let's Move the Lines on the Map from Side to Side." 

Currents of the Sound: https://youtu.be/FFBQMhBJihk

Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas: https://youtu.be/RHHFnBrd2CQ

Kama La La La - La La - La La: https://youtu.be/6DAv1xTCGT4

Jingle Bells: https://youtu.be/cJQBQ4_oE1U

Rudolph The Red Knows Rain Dear: https://youtu.be/cKCNaM7zqyI

We are Coming Into Alignment: https://youtu.be/s7FQGtr-GOE

Everybody's Laughing at Trump: https://youtu.be/fz4Q3CYYHaA

Did You Ever Notice Reality? https://youtu.be/nPthFNI07Qo

The Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key Blues: https://youtu.be/lS1v90vwlSo

Vote For Joe. He's Not Insane: https://youtu.be/qcUJm5N8Cjw

City of the Future: https://youtu.be/x8nqMq05V8U

I Like Trees, Big Old Trees: https://youtu.be/K40_CrkjLjs

I'm Feeling Optimistic: https://youtu.be/XGomyskdw0k

Trump's Giving Away Free Money: https://youtu.be/qCzDiuNQvG4

Say Their Name and they Live Forever. My Ancestors. https://youtu.be/YzbljIKw1_4

Happy Tune: No words, Just a Positive Emotion. Chords: G, D and C: https://youtu.be/tEQliEZRXKI

What is Bubble Up Economics? Speech: https://youtu.be/3kSBGRM3d2s

California Is Burning: https://youtu.be/HwRgS4i-9qg

Free All The Cannabis Prisoners: https://youtu.be/7Z7C0t31hww

Chernobyl, F*ck You! Shima and Three Mile Island: https://youtu.be/vDInJ3gdwsY

tRUMP'S A Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: https://youtu.be/GclJBZgxhhU

Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home: https://youtu.be/V7_jZfFElH4

MELT the GUNS: https://youtu.be/ml5ziDRoqcc

Teenage Alien Dance Party: https://youtu.be/YaXgAAl3bAE

Television is a mirror (with a feedback loop): https://youtu.be/--HfGCqCxT8

GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE (Genre:Bubble Gum Techno-Pop): https://youtu.be/9sP7wGwfGdw

Mescalita: https://youtu.be/yxOCAbaaVmg

Wilson Bridge: https://youtu.be/cDAE0H0tGhg

Big Medicine Song: https://youtu.be/u7uD_aWmymg

eARThsong: https://youtu.be/tERVWVZUNyw

I'm a Vidiot: https://youtu.be/GY8CmLL5vwU

Simple Treasures: https://youtu.be/CLWIRyF0YnQ

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Shark:https://youtu.be/EMV6_iVsC90

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Wild West Wagon: https://youtu.be/1QWIh98dYs0

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Star Ship Enterprise: https://youtu.be/IquyAQNupWI

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Pirate Ship: https://youtu.be/wP6pCgEw_P8

St Francis song: https://youtu.be/0FUueoT9ym8

Shasta The Cat Running: https://youtu.be/pQUHWAVDTv0

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Here is a Link to Another Website of Mine: Google Sites...

https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryvanderlaan/Home

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What Do These People Have In Common? The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, The Doors, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Queen, Sting, Bono, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, The Turtles, The Animals, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Herman's Hermits, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkle, Elvis Presley, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, King Crimson, Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees...

Can You Spot the Trend? The Pattern? Similarity? The Who, The Moody Blues, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Canned Heat, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Procol Harum, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Cream, George Thorogood, The Tubes, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buddy Holly, Frank Zappa, The Band, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Hot Tuna, The Allman Brothers, Steve Miller, Boz Scaggs, Dan Hicks, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, ACDC, Aerosmith, Metallica, Alice Cooper, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Sopwith Camel, MC5, David Peel and the Lower East Side, Lou Reed, Todd Rungren, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynn, Alan Parsons, Tangerine Dream, Mark Knopfler,  Gregory Vanderlaan ...and the List Goes On and On and On... 

Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Greig, Mendelsohn, Handel, Wagner...

Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Mitch Miller, Lawrence Welk, Leonard Bernstein, John Philips Sousa... 

It's a Mysterious PUZZLE! Especially When You Stop to Consider Who is NOT on this List...

Chuck Berry, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dianna Ross, Stevie Nicks, Christie McVee, Ann & Nancy Wilson, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana...  


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They Are All White Men! 

Except for the Grateful Dead... Jerry Garcia is Half White/Half Hispanic but the Other Six People are White Men... WHITE MEN ROCK!

and The Jefferson Airplane was All White TOO... One White Woman and Many White Men... and Janis Joplin Fronted an All White Man Band Too... Heart Had Two Women and an All White Man Backup Band... Dang! Is There a Pattern?

new-pride-flag - European Americans Included


All of the People That Walked on the Moon Were White Men... Why Can't Minorities or Women Walk on the Moon? 

45 1/2 Presidents of the United States were White Men... Obama was Half White and Half Black... and as soon as His Father Donated Sperm He Ran Away to Africa... None of that Raising a Child for Him! And Obama was Raised by His White Mother and White Grandparents... All of That "Black Culture" was Totally Ignored... Obama was Raised in a Culture that Had a Lot of White People, Hawaiians, Japanese and Indonesians...

I Have Noticed that Racism Is Accurate... 

Not Polite, But Factual.

For Example: Ever Heard of These People? 

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniac, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, William Hewlett, David Packard, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Thomas Watson, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, William Shockley, Herman Hollerith, Alan Turing, John Von Neuman, Charles Babbage, Fibonacci, Nikola Tesla, Tim Burners Lee, Thomas Edison ...All White Men... and Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper ...White Women... 

If You Don't Recognize any of These Names... Just Google Them! and be Thankful that Great White Men Created Electricity, Computers and the Internet!

JFK Stadium Grateful Dead 7-7-1989 We did "The Wave" during the Break... Philadelphia, PA - Here are Many Videos of That Concert

I was there... and by a wonderful twist of fate, they filmed the concert so I could enjoy the show years later...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpaD-ktv7Q
"Aiko Aiko"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkAzMiEUUQ8
"Hell in a Bucket"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspGPBijYFU
"Little Red Rooster" Bob's big slide guitar song...
however, Brent sings... and I really believe... when Brent sings...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0HdJ__sykw
entire First Set...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYenjCpJ8g
entire Second Set... get's really interesting at 46 minutes when they go into drums/space... I always felt that all performances of drums/space are interconnected thru an inter-dimensional time warp... that they were simply dipping a ladle into a larger than reality pool of rhythm...

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My Story: Art and Tales... original poetry inspired by shows at the Spectrum Arena and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

ceremony and ritual: a story...
OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL...
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICCOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES...
THEY JUST...know... THAT I WILL LAUGH...
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

God, THE 'BIG G' WALKS RIGHT UP TO ME
AND SHAKES MY HAND.
HE ANSWERS ALL THE
REALLY BIG QUESTIONS...
OF COURSE,  BY THE NEXT MORNING I FORGOT THEM ALL!

NO PROBLEM ....

THEY WERE PROGRAMMED DIRECTLY INTO MY DNA...

At the JFK Show I was sitting up high in the bleachers and noticed that the dancing people looked very similar to Sea Anemones. When the music got very exciting, they would throw their arms up in the air... I could see the music as it  flowed from the front to the back as people raised their arms when they heard it. Very similar to a Sea Anemone flowing in the currents of the ocean... We were flowing in the currents of the music...

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I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,
creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.
See the picture that changed my life:


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TJ420: Posted on Facebook... It was 19 years ago this evening that I had the priveledge of seeing the Grateful Dead for the very last time. Although pretty blazed thru most of the show, I do remember as if yesterday the final encore of that show, Jerry played 'Brokedown Palace" and it was so beautiful it made me cry, but at the same time he sounded so very tired. I will always treasure those final moments,,. there have been many shows and festys since, but the ledgend still holds true..."THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE ANYTHING, ANYTHING LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!"

TT: Except a DSO show!

TT:Try it before you knock it!

RS: Last time

Greg Vanderlaan While going to a performance of The Grateful Dead was wonderful... I believe that it misses the point... Something Else was happening and that Something Else can be experienced at any Dead Related Event. For Example: When I was in High School, someone went to a concert and concluded that we could build our own... and we could be in the band, run the light show... etc... And we built Forbes Mill teen club in Los Gatos, California...

Greg Vanderlaan Speaking of Dead Related Events. The Rainbow Gathering will be in Nevada or Utah first week of July. Exact location to be announced June 14th...

JL: Shoreline, it left an impression in my life. That was also my last show.

TC: you are correct Sir!

Greg Vanderlaan Speaking of Dead Related Events... What about the entire town of Arcata, CA... or Nimbin, Australia???

TJ420: Greg, likes I said and will repeat,"THERE IS AND NEVER WILL BE ANYTHING, ANYTHING! LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW!"

Greg Vanderlaan: Jim, that is true... I'm just making due with what we have left... Sure, the band is not as interesting without Jerry but... I will go dance to local bands that have learned how to play the songs... Thankfully we have every performance stored online... I just enjoyed the JFK show that I barely remember...

AMR: I'm feeling you, thank you for sharing that

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A Friend of Mine Did Not Believe That Her Car Was On the Wrong Side of the Road and Heading for a Logging Truck... and then... She Went Through Her Windshield Head First! Wham! Reality DID Exist! OOPS! That True Story Reminds Me of Trump Supporters... Totally Ignoring The Economic Disaster Trump Has Caused... While they Continue to Chant "Lock Her UP!" Trump has Caused American Farmers to LOSE 1/4 of their Sales... CHINA REFUSES TO BUY FOOD FROM THE USA... and that BONEHEAD Tariff Idea CAUSED 2,500 Truckers to be Laid Off This Year... That's Why Republicans Use So Much Welfare and Food Stamps! but HEY, It's FUN to Blame Someone Else for Your Own Problems...  They REFUSE to Take Responsibility for Their Own Actions and TRY to Blame... Hillary, Brown Skinned People, The NewsPapers, Ancient Aliens, The Squad, Pocahontas, Yo Mama... Jews... Just Like The Nazi Germans Did During World War Two... Anyone but the Man in the Mirror... HEY, I understand... If I Was a Low Educated White Man, I Would be in Competition with Illegal Aliens for Jobs at the Bottom of the Food Chain... However, I went to College and Learned Computers and... MY JOB is Not In Jeopardy of Being Given to an Ancient Alien from Guatemala... TrumpNiks COULD GET EDUCATED and then THEY Would Be Democrats TOO! Did you know that 90% of Google Employees are Democrats? That's Because It Takes Plenty Smarts to Get Hired There and Republicriminals are Just Too... [fill in the blank]

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tRUMP Has Always Hated the Smart Kids. They Never Let Him Join Their Cliques... and That Made Him Envious... Jealous...

Now tRUMP Has The Last Laugh... He Gets to Tell Scientists That Science Doesn't Have The Answers... QAnon Does!
MEME - When You Click on a Trump Ad - You Cost Them Money - Vote4Joe - Power to the People Right On - gvan42
And the tRUMP Campaign Doesn't Have Much Money!

Like Most Americans, I Watch NBC NEWS. Sometimes I Tune in the Bizarro Cult News (FOX) but I Always Mute the Sound First. NO WAY will I Allow their HATE SPEECH into my Ears. For a Laugh, try OAN News... CrazyTrain! Whoo! Whoo!

They are Having an Increasingly DiffiCULT time pretending that Mad King Donald is Wonderful... I find it Amusing to Watch Them Tie Themselves into a "Twister Game" Knots in order to SPIN REALITY into a Show That States: "Our Glorious Leader CAN DO No Wrong, Even When He Does Wrong, He Does NO WRONG!"

OAN News has some Really Bizarre Advertisements. You would have to be a Total Idiot to Buy That Stuff. OH! They Know Their Viewers! For Example: "Super Beets" - If you want to eat Beets, Just Eat Beets. Go to the Freaking Grocery Store and Buy Beets. No Need to Pay an Outrageous Price for "Super Beets" - That would be Stupid. This News Show is Trump's Favorite... and as we can all see... He is Dumb as a Rock!

That's Why Everyone LAUGHS at Czar Donald The Loser.




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Get it? FOR REST! a place to relax... that is it's Porpoise! Redwood Forest Near Eureka, California... 
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Top Ten Song List and a Quiz... My Favorites... Answers TOO!

1. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane... This is a hard choice because "Volunteers" is a fine song too, but I'll have to give that Wascally Wabbit her due... It was used in the book "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson... The Lawyer, a Brain Full of LSD, a full bathtub and an AC electric appliance... were to 'become one' at the end of the song when Grace sings the words: "remember, what the dormouse said, _______ _______ ________."
QUIZ: what DID the dormouse say? We were supposed to remember... (answer at bottom of page).

2. "Climb every Mountain" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. sung by the nun in The Sound of Music... Inspirational, and she just NAILED that last note... I read that there are showings of an "audience participation" movie (like Rocky Horror) using the movie "Sound of Music".  People wear lederhosen, nun's habits and sing along with all the songs and make jokes about the dialog... I'd like to go to that!
QUIZ: What's her name?

3. "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin... a Tale of Vikings and Valhalla... Plus, it's got a great beat and you can dance to it... and the lyrics... Robert Plant sings "aaaaooooh"... I also like all those OTHER Led Zep songs... "Stairway to Heaven", "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir" it's hard to find a Zep song I don't like... A satire is on the internet called Viking Kittens.
QUIZ: what other Led Zep song uses this same exact lyric... "aaaaooooh"

4. "Ain't no 'cane in the Brazos, they turned it all into molasses"  written by Leadbelly, sung by Rick Danko, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Dawson (NRPS) and Bob Weir in the Festival Express Train movie... A true gem... relaxing on the Trans Canadian Railroad and singing to amuse themselves... I just put this on the list because of the casual, behind the scenes appeal of friends having fun together... the whole film is priceless...
QUIZ: The Festival Express Train went along the Trans Canadian Railway line. This Railroad was immortalized in what song by whom?

5. "Pocket Calculator" by KRAFTWERK... THE original techno beat song... imitated thousands of times by new wave bands, rap music artists, hip-hop, trance... rave... SYNTHESIZER DRUM MACHINES... changed the face of music forever.
QUIZ: What does the word KRAFTWERK mean in the German language ?

6. "Fixin’ to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish... In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is the best anti-war sing along song... call and response... "Gimme an 'F', Gimme a 'U', Gimme a 'C', Gimme a 'K'...
QUIZ: what's that spell?  Two versions... in the studio and live at Woodstock. Really!

7. Whatever BEATLE song is playing right now... When they are singing a song on the radio, that song becomes "the best Beatle song ever'... until they play another Beatle song and then THAT one is "the best Beatle song ever". If I was forced to choose... I'd have to say "Yellow Submarine" because I have played it in public and been surrounded by people singing the chorus... in Chico, CA...
QUIZ: Has there been a band that has had MORE biography and documentation than The Beatles ? It seems like everyone that ever met them wrote a book, made a movie (Bee-Gees), formed a tribute band (The Monkees, Rain, The Rutles), used their name as a theme for a circus act (Cirque de Soleil) or built a website...

8. "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie... Do you remember the missing 18 1/2 minutes of Richard Nixon's Oval Office tapes... well, Arlo says that they were listening to Alice's Restaurant at the White House and Nixon got embarrassed about having a tape recording of them laughing and singing along with the chorus... so he had Rosemary Woods erase that part of the tape... Imagine Nixon, Liddy and Haldeman in three part harmony...
QUIZ: What can't you get at Alice's Restaurant ? What other song... uses the exact same chord progression ?

9. "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie... I've got to put him on the list because... a LOT of other people really learned from him... Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, me... His wife tells a story of a trip she took to China... The school children were taught ONLY ONE American song to perform for her organization. There are many verses that are not in the official version.  Here is a Secret Verse:
"As I went Walking, I saw a sign,
and on that sign said NO TRESPASSING
on the other side it said NOTHING AT ALL
this side was made for you and me"
QUIZ: "Bound for Glory" movie... No Quiz... Just Remember all those Great Songs... Including... The Grand Coulee Dam!

10. "Truckin' " by The Grateful Dead... Winterland, 1974 during the filming of  "The Grateful Dead Movie"... I sure lucked out, they had a camera crew there to film my LSD trip...
QUIZ: How did Spinal Tap pay tribute to the Dead ?
 END OF TOP TEN LIST
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answers to quiz:
1. The dormouse said "feed your head" in the song... In the book by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" at the Mad Hatters Tea Party: `You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'  This was part of a conversation about riddles. I have no idea WHY we are supposed to remember this... 

2. The Mother Abbess was played by Peggy Wood in the movie with Julie Andrews.

3. All Led Zeppelin songs contain the lyric "aaaaooooh" somewhere in them... Even the instrumentals... Sorry, trick question...

4. Gordon Lightfoot wrote Canadian Railroad Trilogy as theme music for a CBC television show commemorating the l00th anniversary of the railroad...
The 'cain song is about Sugarcane farming in Texas. Prisoners were forced to work harvesting 'cane under slave like conditions. An astonishingly abusive system... The same county in Texas was the birthplace of Tom Delay, the disgraced House of Representatives leader... forced to resign due to being caught taking bribes.
LYRICS to the Leadbelly song...Ain't No More Cane
Ain’ no mo' cane on de Brazis
Oh...
Done groun' it all in molazzis,
Better git yo' overcoat ready,
Well, it's comin' up a norther.
Well, de captain standin' an' lookin' an' cryin',
Well, it's gittin' so col', my row's behin'.
Oh...
Cap'n doncha do me like you did po' Shine,
Drive dat bully till he went stone-blin'.
Oh...

5. KRAFTWERK means Electric power plant. The Simpsons Cartoon show had an episode (entitled KRAFTWERK) about a German corporation that wanted to buy the atomic power plant that Homer works at. When I watched the show, I was disappointed to find no techno-pop music... Just jokes about German Power Plants...
6. Gimme an 'F', Gimme an 'I', gimme an 'S', gimme an 'H'... what's that spell? FISH, what's that spell? FISH...of course, they spelled out the word "FISH" on the studio version... "FUCK" at Woodstock...

7. No... They still have the biggest fan club... however,
The Grateful Dead has had a huge quantity of biographies, documentaries, "from the Vault" record releases, wine label artwork by Garcia, neckties with artwork by Garcia and other "cash in on their fame" items. To top it all off... the court TV channel carried the proceedings from the trial contesting Jerry's WILL by most of his wives and a daughter... squabbling over the money... the only thing that has not been done is a Disney animatronics robot playing MIDI recordings of solos called "The amazing Mr. Jerry"... Like the Country Bear Jamboree...
ELVIS PRESLEY has also had a ridiculous amount of documentation and EBAY sales.

8.Alice. "You can get everything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, 'cepting Alice". The chord progression used in Alice's Restaurant also fits perfectly the Hot Tuna song "Keep on Truckin' MAMA, truck my blues away"... Maybe ALL blues songs use the same chords... These two sure do... I'm sure that musicians might disagree because they are in a different Key but they ARE very close.

9. No quiz. Just enjoy his legacy... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ3Ekn_QO6o 

"Grand Coulee Dam" 1949 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Woody Guthrie


l0:  In the Movie Spinal Tap they had many exploding drummers... The Grateful Dead had many keyboard players. Ron McKernan (pigpen), Tom Constanten, Keith and Donna Godchaux, Brent Mydland, Vince Wellnic and Bruce Hornsby... Ron, Keith, Vince and Brendt died young... RIP... Tom excused himself because the Dead were not weird enough for him... He is still alive and looks great with white hair... Vince Welnic came to the Dead from The Tubes and was the last of The Grateful Dead keyboard players... They still tour as "Dead & Company" and there are a random assortment of players including Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann... Phil Lesh Has His Own Band... 

Photo of The Grateful Dead in South San Francisco - In Front of Little Boxes Homes...
Five people held mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the faces of The Grateful Dead... Note the Shadows at their Feet... 
by Bob Seidemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Seidemann 




Potatoes Thrown at American Troops As They Depart Northeastern City in Syria... tRUMP's #RUNAWAY from Danger Plan is a Disaster... Even Republicriminals Grasp The Concept and REJECT tRUMP!

https://time.com/5705969/syria-withdrawl-potatoes/ 

A video by the Kurdish news agency showed a convoy of armored vehicles driving through the northeastern city of Qamishli. People in the street hurled potatoes at the vehicles, shouting, “No America,” and “America liar,” in English.
“Like rats, America is running away,” one man shouted in Arabic. Another shouted obscenities and talked of babies in Kurdish-held who have died in the Turkish offensive.
#Moscow Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney all call tRUMP an Idiot...
Romney rips into Trump's betrayal of Syrian Kurds on Senate floor. https://www.axios.com/mitt-romney-trump-kurds-betrayal-f8b2b829-eefe-47c3-9c0a-1526269579fa.html


PATRIOTS ARISE! Help Campaign for Amy McGrath for Senate in Kentucky... Beat #MoscowMitch Like a Pinata! He is a Corrupt TrumpNik - Obeying His Master, Vladimir Putin - Register and Vote! Throw all the Corrupt Old White Men OUT. 
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*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics